5:58 PM,
Jun. 16, 2012

Pinch hitter extraordinaire Jerry Lynch leans over his new shipment of bats received from Louisville Slugger.

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Give Patrick Lynch - son of the late, great Reds' pinch hitter Jerry Lynch - the other 364 days, and he'll give you today, Father's Day.

"That's the way my father was for us - he was always there," said Patrick, youngest of the four Lynch children, and the only one born in Cincinnati. "We lived on a golf course (Champion Lakes in Ligonier, 50 miles from Pittsburgh) which my dad and (former Pirates shortstop) Dick Groat designed and built and operated. Dad worked about 17 hours a day, seven days a week (during the golf season), but we always knew where to find him - because we worked there, too."